Customer Ratings & Reviews

I’m impressed with the sharpness of this lens. Lightweight and a must have for Nikon Z dx shooters.

This is an upgrade from my first lens. I was using a standard lens. Now this lens lets me zoom where i need to inorder to achieve the best looking photograph. I DO NOT REGRET this purchase.

High quality telescope lens for this price. The lens is good enough to take pictures of birds and small animals! Light weight as well.

This lens does a lot of the heavy lifting for you, especially with the stabilizing feature. You get steady, clear shots when you need them.

I love this telephoto. There is a fireworks show on July 4th that is a 15 minute drive from my house. The photos I shot from my driveway with this lens and my Nikon z fc, make it seem like I was at the event

This lens is absolutely great for my new Nikon z50 camera.

I have a Nikon Zfc and picked up this lens so I had more zoom than the kit lens that came with the camera. I wasn't looking to spend more than $300, just so I could get started. I plan to buy better lenses down the line, including a prime lens, but this one is a placeholder until I save up. Nikon's kit lenses aren't bad and often receive high marks, especially for kit lenses. This one is no different. The build quality does leave a little to be desired. The lens construction is all plastic. That makes it light weight while also feeling cheap. The lens rattles when it's fully closed and doesn't inspire faith that it will hold up. I have no doubt that it will last. I had a similar lens with an older Nikon DSLR that lasted for years without issues. Just don't expect this to compete with a $400+ lens. Nikon's glass is high quality, as usual, and the lens doesn't add too much weight or length to my camera. It doesn't have the older styling that matches the Zfc, but it still looks fine. The zoom range is great and autofocusing is fine. It's slower in lowlight conditions due to the higher aperture range. It does go up to 6.3 quickly, somewhere around 175-200mm. Again, it's not bad for the price and is a good starter zoom lens for people not wanting to spend $400+. The effective range is 75-375mm on Nikon's APS-C mirrorless cameras, which are only the Z50 and Zfc (a rumored Z30 is just around the corner). I've taken good photos and the VR helps with handheld lowlight/night shots. Not quite as good as having IBIS in the camera, still better than nothing. I recommend this lens for anyone starting out or for people traveling who only want to bring 2 total lenses.

An great lens that is amazing for the price. It's made from high quality plastic, but the glass is great and produces excellent image quality for the price, weight, and size. Perfect zoom for you Z50!

Amazing lens and easy to attach to my camera with farther range and great quality photos.

For the price its a good starter kit lens. I can't afford 2k for the lens I want. This lens does take a good picture on my z6. Its super light weight which was a big selling point for me. I mainly shoot wildlife and landscapes. Hiking with this lens doesn't add a lot of weight to my pack.

It is light and versitile, i love how easy it is to use, and the focus is a little sensitive, but it is sonething you can used too.

affordable; good review by Ken Rockwell; works well with mirrorless camera

Before I went mirrorless, my favorite lens was Nikon’s dx 55-300mm f-mount lens. Getting this new NIKKOR Z DX 50-250mm lens is quite the replacement. The little things that irked me with my f-mount set up are fixed with this new lens. Focus breathing is no longer an issue, the focusing is quiet and I feel like focus hunting is to a minimal. Oh, and did I mention that the images from this camera come out super sharp! I’m loving this new lens and it does wonders when natively paired with a DX Z camera. The minimum focus distance comes quite in handy as well, I feel like I can use this lens in many situations. If you are an enthusiast or a hobbyist, I don’t think you can go wrong with this lens. Do note the lens mount is plastic, many would probably prefer metal, to me it’s not that big of an issue. If I had to pick, I would lean that I wish Nikon went with a metal mount for this lens. Other than that, I’m loving this!

Great lens for the price. Really light. Autofocus is very fast.

Compact size was the driving factor and it creates a much easier to use and carry lens. Picture quality seems fine.

Very good lens for my new Nikon five mirror Las camera works very well. Have yet to take pictures, but I’m sure it’s gonna do very well. Multiple Nikon owner.

Great image quality. Well-built. Use this on a Nikon Z5 full frame so it’s like having a 75 mm to 375 mm zoom.

I bought this for my wife's camera. The quality is great.

Is a good lens for the price, make sounds like something is loose in the inside, until you turn on the camera

The quality of zoom and focus for this price are absolutely worth it. I’m very careful with all my equipment and normally I wouldn’t opt for a plastic body on such an instrument, but as long as your gentle (as you should be with all your glass) this should be worth the buy. The only reason it didn’t get 5 stars was because of the plastic body.